The Hillsborough Law has passed the Commons. It doesn’t yet apply to the everyday work of universities, but Iād suggest the sector doesn’t wait. For those of us who run investigations and disciplinary processes, candour is a standard worth adopting in our most serious casework, whether the law is extended to us or not. The […]
Read more →Content note for discussion of suicide. Please take care and skip this piece if you need to. There are support links at the bottom of this page. Recently, the Guardian reported on the inquest of Chloe Moffat, a 26-year-old personal assistant at the Treasury. Chloe had worked there for almost three years.; she loved her […]
Read more →Kifinfo, the news site of Norway’s Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research, recently published an article on how universities handle reports of bullying, harassment, and discrimination. Kristian Solaas, the equality advisor at the University of Agder, describes his ideal outcome: success means no whistleblowing cases reaching his desk, not because they have been […]
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